<nettime> MoneyLab #8 - Minting a Fair Society // Blockchain: Radicalising the Social Imagination

[Marcela Okretič <marcela@aksioma.org>]

MoneyLab #8
Minting a Fair Society

LIVE STREAMING SERIES

11 May - 29 June 2020

https://aksioma.org/moneylab8

 

STREAM #7 / Monday, 22 June 2020 at 5 pm CET

Blockchain: Radicalising the Social Imagination

With Jaya Klara Brekke, Max Haiven, Martin Zeilinger

Moderated by Inte Gloerich

+ You are kindly invited to share your comments and questions trough the
live chat!

 

Like many technologies, the radical potential of blockchains and
cryptocurrencies to revolutionise the way we work, trade, cooperate and
exchange has narrowed as major banks, corporations, and other powerful
interests claim this potential for themselves. What has happened to those
alternative futures lost along the way? What about the paths not taken in
the development of this technology? Or was it fated to be this way? Was this
technology cursed from the beginning? This panel seeks to explore the ghosts
and spectres of alternative possibilities, of the radical imagination, that
haunt today's landscape of blockchain experiments. In an era when
blockchains are being used for the purpose of increasing corporate power, of
consolidating inequality, or for new forms of surveillance and exploitation,
are other blockchain futures possible?

 

The panellists will seek to recover the political economies of the
hacker-engineers, whose stories start with an affiliation to
"decentralisation" that emerged out of experiences in pre-Bitcoin
cypherpunk, hacker and peer-to-peer network cultures as well as consider
money's long history of "epic failures", in which schemers, dreamers and
tricksters have tried, and failed, to steal monetary fire from the economic
Gods. Together they will question the task for a truly revolutionary money
that would not only bring about a redistribution of wealth, but also a
reimagination of value. Among the propositions, we'll hear about exploring
how blockchain tech could be used not for "fixing" property-based value
systems, but for refusing such systems entirely. Instead of financialising
creative practice and further commodifying aesthetic artefacts, can "crypto"
resist property as such? How might an unownable digital artefact function on
the blockchain?

 

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Organised and produced by: Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Art,
Ljubljana, 2020
For the series:  <https://aksioma.org/tactics.practice/> Tactics & Practice
In the frame of:  <https://kons-platforma.org/> konS - Platform for
Contemporary Investigative Art
In collaboration with:  <https://www.kinosiska.si/en/> Kino Šiška - Centre
for Urban Culture and  <https://www.kinosiska.si/en/> Institute of Network
Cultures / Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
In partnership with: <https://rijeka2020.eu/en/>  Rijeka ECoC 2020 and
<https://www.ufg.at/Master-Programme.1594+M52087573ab0.0.html> Interface
Cultures Department / Kunstuniversität Linz
Media partners: Neural magazine, We Make Money Not Art, TAM-TAM, Radio
Študent

 

The project konS - Platform for Contemporary Investigative Art was chosen on
the public call for the selection of the operations "Network of
Investigative Art and Culture Centres". 

The investment is co-financed by the Republic of Slovenia and by the
European Regional Development Fund of the European Union.

 

 

Marcela Okretič

Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana

Jakopičeva 11, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

 

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Komenskega 18, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

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e-mail: marcela@aksioma.org <mailto:marcela@aksioma.org> 

www.aksioma.org <http://www.aksioma.org> 

 

 


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